Improvement in mail-bag fasteners



Stiebel tatee DAVID e. GAY, or EU GENE CITY, OREGON.

Letters Patent No. 108,251, dated October 11. 1870.

IMPROV-EMENT IN MAIL-BAG FASTENERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the name.

To all whom 'it may concern.:

Be itknown that I, DAVID G. GAY, of Eugene City, in the county of Lane and State of Oregon, have invented a new and improved Mail-bag Fastener; and I do hereby declare that the following is a lfull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

Figure l represents a transverse section of' my iniproved 1nailbag fastener.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the saine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple and reliable device for closing mail-bags, and consists in the use of a metallic eccentric clamp, which closes the mouth of the bag without diiculty.

Ain the drawingfreprcsents a met-al bar, as long as the mail-bag to be closed is wide.

From the ends of the bar A project ears ava, which serve to support an eccentric bar, B.

The bar A is provided with a projecting arm, b, at

one end.

The end of the eccentric B hasalso a projecting arm, e.

centric B, and arms b c, all arranged to operate substantially as herein shown and described.

DAVID G. GAY..

Witnesses J As. W. SKAGGS, J. J. WALTON, Jr. 

